Yerba Mate' vs Coffee, Energy Drinks & Adderall!

Users report a mental state of wakefulness, focus and alertness reminiscent of most stimulants - though longer lasting. Drinkers report a lack of the negative effects typically created by coffee or energy drinks such as anxiety, diarrhea, "jitteriness," heart palpitations, insomnia and irritability. The pleasantly stimulating effect of Yerba Mate comes primarily from a compound called mateine. While mateine is related to caffeine, and sometimes referred to as such, the way the body absorbs it differs significantly from caffeine. Yerba Mate affects your system by gradually bringing up your energy level more slowly and evenly. It has a more long lasting effect and most people find this much more enjoyable than coffee. Studies of mate, though very limited, have shown preliminary evidence that the substance is different from other caffeinated beverages most significantly in its effects on muscle tissue, as opposed to those on the central nervous system, which are similar to those of other natural stimulants.

Is Mate' Caffeine Free? No, yerba mate' does contain caffeine, but some people seem to tolerate it better than coffee or tea, as found by Researchers at Florida International University in Miami . Perhaps because caffeine is found at much lower levels. So meager that it would require 100 tea bags worth of mate brewed in a 6-ounce cup of water to equal the amount of caffeine in a 6-ounce serving of conventional coffee. It is however generally established that yerba mate's caffeine content is minimal - researchers from the Free Hygienic Institute of Hamburg, Germany, concluded in their studies of yerba mate that its caffeine content is ...